True Crime Stories

At the beginning of the year I did a blog about the 1994 kidnapping and presumed murder of Heidi Allen in New York. Two brothers were tried separately for that crime but only one was convicted. Several years later more than a few people came forward and implicated James Steen in that crime. Some would claim that he had confessed while others seemed to report seeing Steen on the night Heidi was kidnapped. Still others would claim that since by the time he was implicated he was serving a sentence of life without parole for two murders he committed that simply made him an easy scapegoat. Investigators looked into the allegations but were unable to come to any conclusions whether the rumors were true and by then Steen was denying any involvement. In 2007 James “Thumper” Steen got married to Vicki who was ten years younger than him. It is not completely clear how many children they had but by 2010 it seems that they had at least a two year old son and a daughter. I cannot say if ...

This blog will not only quite honestly likely be very long, maybe my longest, but will prove difficult to write. So often the victim of a murder crime gets lost in the shuffle of things within the investigation and the legal proceedings. This is just such a case and I honestly cannot see a way around it so I am going to do things a bit differently here. I want to start off this blog telling you what I can about Heidi Allen. Let's get to know her as best as I can tell you and then we will talk about her disappearance and all of the legal wranglings and questions that have been asked for nearly thirty years. I do want to say that I did not know Heidi personally, nor do I know her family or any of the other families involved. Heidi Allen was born September 14, 1975 in New York to Kenneth and Susan Allen. She had an older sister, Lisa and I saw reports that she may have had a brother also but I cannot confirm this. Her mother passed away in 2015 and there was not a son liste...